Abu Hamza served as a “health and safety officer for the Mujahidin”, he told a
New York court yesterday, denying that he ever fired more than “a couple of
bullets” in Afghanistan.

The former leader of Finsbury Park mosque, whose injuries and supposed combat
experience once burnished his reputation as a warrior for Islam, faces
charges of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan, Yemen and the US.

He said that he lost his hands and one eye while conducting an experiment for
the Pakistani army.

“Did you fight?” he was asked in court about his time in Afghanistan.
“Unfortunately the reputation is